Word: roguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn of the century, thatchers were stock characters in nearly every village in the southern half of England. "They're a lonely sort of people," says Dodson, whose family have been thatchers for generations in the village of Huntingdon near Cambridge. "They've always been a roguish lot who'd just as soon poach from the local squire as earn money thatching...
...tools of Chevalier's trade were as familiar as the bowler, cane and flat-footed waddle of his contemporary, Charlie Chaplin; almost always there was a straw hat tilted rakishly over a roguish blue eye, a jutting lower lip, a slightly protruding derriere, and that gay boulevardier's swagger. When famed Director Ernst Lubitsch offered him the role of a prince in Hollywood, Chevalier laughingly declined, saying: "With my swinging walk, I can only play commoners...
What redeems the play is what redeems any Osborne play: an intriguing central character who rivets the audience with nothing more than talk, talk and more talk. This time it is the roguish writer, a part that Richardson does not so much perform as revel in -gloriously. Behind his screen of "Who, me?" buffoonery, the writer has plumbed the cold depths of his situation. The other characters-old generation and new-are still in the shallows, still fashionably suffering a loss of faith as if it were a briefcase left on a train. To the writer, the gravest...